I have several old original Agfaortho 35mm cassetes and a 30 year old bottle of Rodinal.

I have been getting back into B&W photography, and am looking for develpement times for Agfaortho and Rodinal. I KNOW THE RODINAL IS GOOD, as I have developed several 35mm rolls of T-Max.

Since the instructions with Agfaortho recomment 1:10, I have assumed that is to get good reproduction of black type on white paper. I want to get normal and high contrast negatives of landscapes, city scapes and portrature.

Chuck38 wrote:I have seen some B&W prints on the internet that were supposedly shot on Agfaortho and they have good clear gradation. I've tried to contact the photographers, but no replies.

Thanks for your reply.

Microfilms are extremely slow fine-grain films for document copying. They have very little latitude in exposure and development because all the grains are very similar in size. Trust me, your best bet is Fuji Acros, probably in D-76 1:1 or 1:3 (run tests for development time). Use EI 64 or so. It's not worth the effort to work with the document films at all. I played with them many years ago. Most people do not understand how film works and why such films are not very well suited for pictorial use. Good tonality comes from having a range of grain sizes, which is why the faster films often produce the best tonality. Believe it or not, the manufacturers do know what they are doing!